NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Geometric Patterns

The project began with an analysis of the geometric patterns found in existing mosques.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Re-Constructing Patterns

By abstracting the solids and voids of these patterns we generated a new tiling system. To understand the design process deconstructing and reconstructing various patterns was the first part of the research.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Getting in the third dimension

Treating each connecting point as a pulling point
and moving them in the z-direction to transform
the two-dimensional unit into a three-dimensional unit.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Unit Systems

Combining the units to create a pattern by mirroring them,
behaves naturally and generates voids in the system,
which provides different types of spatial treatment.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Behaviour Research

To simplify the construction process, the research was followed by looking into different behaviours of the same building unit creating different patterns.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

Behaviour Research

To simplify the construction process, the research was followed by looking into different behaviours of the same building unit creating different patterns.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.

NuJoom Pavilion

The pavilion is going to be built in SantralIstanbul in 2013.

NuJoom Pavilion

NuJoom is a pavilion for people to pray, think and find solitude. The pavilion was constructed through an analysis of existing mosque patterns. From this analysis we generated individual units to study a bottom up design system. By combining the units in different patterns we discovered various material behaviors. An analogue coding system was developed to document the research and design transitional patterns combining the most interesting behaviours.